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Fertility Factor

Stress and Infertility - We know infertility creates stress; we don't know for certain that stress creates infertility. Nevertheless, here are some tips to help you persevere on your path to parenthood.

As the availability of face-to-face support groups diminishes or never was available in many locales for those experiencing infertility, can telemental support groups delivered directly to an individual's home (e.g., via the telephone or internet) provide comparable support?

Is a corporate offering to pay for egg freezing for young women a reflection of awareness of the conflict for women between career building and family building or merely a way to encourage women to postpone family building in favor of career building?

Introduction to a technique of reproductive science that replaces faulty mitochondria (the energy sources of our bodies) in a woman's egg cell with healthy mitochondria to avoid the transmission of mitochondrial disease to her baby. However, this necessitates involving the DNA of three people rather than two to create a baby, thus raising issues of risks and ethics.

Before fertility patients ask for a multiple pregnancy, they need to be aware of the risks. New technologies may help determine embryo fitness prior to transfer to help encourage the transfer of a single embryo during an IVF cycle.